This is a series of panel discussions hosted by Cake Solutions, exploring the latest in application design, development and deployment techniques, with a particular focus on Reactive programming principles.

Contemporary practice in the use of microservices
This panel session focuses on the subject of microservices, an architectural approach that is transforming how firms develop and deploy large scale applications, particularly in cloud environments, resulting in greater agility, resiliency and scalability while reducing time to market.

How and where can applications be implemented using a microservices approach? What is available now, what’s coming down the track, what business benefits are enabled by progressive use of microservices and cloud, and what are the current best practices?

Questions and topics that the panel will address include:
• Why would you adopt a microservices versus a monolith approach to application development and deployment? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches?
• What kinds of challenges and difficulties are associated with a microservices architecture, particularly around deployment? How can those challenges best be addressed? What are the trade-offs?
• What types of applications are particularly suited to a microservices architecture? Are there particular problems that microservices can solve around big data applications with large numbers of users, for example?
• What are the implications of starting a project from scratch using microservices, versus migrating from a monolith application? Are there advantages to starting with a monolith approach until the domain (and the associated dependencies between components and services) is fully understood?
• What are the dos and don’ts of communication between microservices, particularly regarding shared state between services? What are the pros & cons of REST versus event streams within a microservices architecture?
• What are the key issues around deployment of microservices, particularly into cloud? And where do Continuous Integration and DevOps fit in?

The event will be moderated by Mike O’Hara of The Realization Group with Panelists:

Chris Matta - Confluent

Duncan DeVore - Lightbend

Vishnu Mohan - Mesosphere

Sebastian Estevez - Datastax

We look forward to welcoming you for drinks and what we expect to be an interesting and thought provoking evening.